On This Day - January 18

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 18.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2015 American Sniper Sunday $24,383,294 $350,126,372
2020 Bad Boys For Life Saturday $21,716,950 $204,417,855
2008 Cloverfield Friday $17,164,536 $80,048,433
2014 Ride Along Saturday $16,683,695 $134,202,565
2019 Glass Friday $15,886,745 $111,048,468
2010 Avatar Monday $11,615,834 $785,221,649
2014 Lone Survivor Saturday $10,312,050 $125,095,601
1998 Titanic Sunday $10,235,305 $674,460,013
2002 Black Hawk Down Friday $10,117,000 $108,638,745
2013 Mama Friday $10,098,305 $71,628,180

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 18.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2008 Cloverfield Friday $17,164,536 $80,048,433
2019 Glass Friday $15,886,745 $111,048,468
2013 Mama Friday $10,098,305 $71,628,180
2008 27 Dresses Friday $7,772,852 $76,808,654
2002 Snow Dogs Friday $4,193,000 $81,150,692
2013 Broken City Friday $2,948,119 $19,701,164
2008 Mad Money Friday $2,350,449 $20,668,843
2013 The Last Stand Friday $2,032,835 $12,050,299
2025 UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Tsarukyan 2 Saturday $334,988 $334,988
2019 Canal Street Friday $37,595 $251,917

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 18.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2015 American Sniper $89,269,066 $350,126,372
2020 Bad Boys For Life $62,504,105 $204,417,855
2014 Ride Along $41,516,170 $134,202,565
2019 Glass $40,328,920 $111,048,468
2008 Cloverfield $40,058,229 $80,048,433
2009 Paul Blart: Mall Cop $31,832,636 $146,336,178
1998 Titanic $30,010,633 $674,460,013
2002 Black Hawk Down $28,611,736 $108,638,745
2013 Mama $28,402,310 $71,628,180
2004 Along Came Polly $27,721,185 $88,073,507

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: A.A. Milne (1882, died on January 31, 1956 at the age of 74), Oliver Hardy (1892, died on August 7, 1957 at the age of 65), Cary Grant (1904, died on November 29, 1986 at the age of 82), Danny Kaye (1911, died on March 3, 1987 at the age of 76), John Boorman (1933, turns 93 this year), Raymond Briggs (1934, died on August 9, 2022 at the age of 88), Dick Durock (1937, turns 89 this year), Paul Freeman (1943, turns 83 this year), Takeshi Kitano (1947, turns 79 this year), M.C. Gainey (1948, turns 78 this year), Kevin Costner (1955, turns 71 this year), Bjarne Henriksen (1959, turns 67 this year), Mark Rylance (1960, turns 66 this year), Jeff Yagher (1961, turns 65 this year), Michael Roberds (1964, died on May 15, 2016 at the age of 52), Jane Horrocks (1964, turns 62 this year), Dave Attell (1965, turns 61 this year), David Ayer (1968, turns 58 this year), Antonio De La Torre (1968, turns 58 this year), Dave Bautista (1969, turns 57 this year), Jesse L. Martin (1969, turns 57 this year), Burnie Burns (1973, turns 53 this year), Maulik Pancholy (1974, turns 52 this year), Derek Richardson (1976, turns 50 this year), Jay Chou (1979, turns 47 this year), Jason Segel (1980, turns 46 this year), Estelle (1980, turns 46 this year), Dong-won Kang (1981, turns 45 this year), Antje Traue (1981, turns 45 this year), Samantha Mumba (1983, turns 43 this year), Amir Blumenfeld (1983, turns 43 this year), Jelena Gavrilovic (1983, turns 43 this year), Jung Yumi (1983, turns 43 this year), Devin Kelley (1986, turns 40 this year), Ingvild Deila (1987, turns 39 this year), Zane Holtz (1987, turns 39 this year), Ashleigh Murray (1988, turns 38 this year), Nicolas Pesce (1990, turns 36 this year), Britt McKillip (1991, turns 35 this year), Sean Keenan (1993, turns 33 this year), Morgan York (1993, turns 33 this year), Sam Strike (1994, turns 32 this year), Karan Brar (1999, turns 27 this year)

Died on this day in history: Sydney Greenstreet (1954, at the age of 74), Cecil Beaton (1980, at the age of 76), Lois Nettleton (2008, at the age of 80), Robert B. Parker (2010, at the age of 77), Glenn Frey (2016, at the age of 67), Stephen Lee Davis (2017, at the age of 61), Peter Mayle (2018, at the age of 78), Sylvia Kay (2019, at the age of 82), François Protat (2019, at the age of 82), Jack Van Impe (2020, at the age of 88), Robert Sampson (2020, at the age of 86), Jean-Pierre Bacri (2021, at the age of 69), Richard Lindheim (2021, at the age of 80), André Leon Talley (2022, at the age of 73), Yvette Mimieux (2022, at the age of 80), Paul Vecchiali (2023, at the age of 92), Sandra Seacat (2023, at the age of 86), Nikolai Dostal (2023, at the age of 76), Claire van Kampen (2025, at the age of 71), Ze'ev Revach (2025, at the age of 84)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.